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Jay Roszman
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Historian of 19th-c Ireland, Britain, & Empire at University College Cork. An 🇺🇸in 🇮🇪. Book on agrarian violence and British policy w Cambridge (2022). Next project on Irishmen, education, and empire.
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Oct 1857: The Lord Lieutenant praised Queen's graduates who were heading off to India, imploring them to take 'conspicuous' part in 'restoring upon a firmer, a purer, a nobler basis than it ever yet rested on - the hold of civilised and Christian England upon the regained millions of India'. 🗃️

Quoted text, in part: "I fervently hope that among the honourable and enduring successes of the Queen's Colleges in Ireland, it may come to be recorded of them that the young men whom they will have trained for the business of active life, have borne a conspicuous and distinguished part in the Imperial task which now devolves on us as a people, of restoring upon a firmer, a purer, a nobler basis than it ever yet rested on - the hold of civilised and Christian England the regained millions of India (applause).'
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Historian of 19th-c Ireland, Britain, & Empire at University College Cork. An 🇺🇸in 🇮🇪. Book on agrarian violence and British policy w Cambridge (2022). Next project on Irishmen, education, and empire.
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